Hawaii Representative Gene Ward [R]

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HIHB355Intro
25%
Establishes a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses paid to retrofit a residence with wind resistive devices.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB270Intro
25%
Creates the offense of urinating or defecating in public. Provides penalties for public urination or defecation. Requires mental health evaluation and supportive services for a person experiencing homelessness who is arrested for urinating or defecat...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB264Intro
25%
Amends provisions relating to criteria in family court determinations regarding custody and visitation rights. Clarifies that no court shall consider a parent's affirmation of their child's gender identity or expression in a custody determination.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB260Intro
25%
Eliminates state taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel for motor vehicles. Requires savings be passed from distributor to consumer.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB261Intro
25%
Establishes the offense of loitering on public property and adds trespassing on public property to the offense of criminal trespass in the first degree. Establishes the homeless case management program and special fund, administered by the judiciary ...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB291Intro
25%
Clarifies when the use of deadly force is not justified. Removes the requirement to retreat or surrender possessions prior to using deadly force.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB257Intro
25%
Provides that a new certificate of birth issued by the State shall include a designation of the sex of the person born, based on the genitalia of the person. Authorizes amendments of designations of sex on certificates of birth, provided that the bir...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB353Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, to oversee and administer grants to low-income residents, and condominium associations on behalf of lo...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB301Intro
25%
Makes a second or subsequent conviction for violation of a domestic abuse protective order a class C felony. Increases the sentencing requirements for second or subsequent convictions.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB263Intro
25%
Creates an exemption to the vehicle weight tax for full-time college students.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB281Intro
25%
Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB283Intro
25%
Eliminates the state individual income tax.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB297Intro
25%
Requires that each county council district feature at least one voter service center for elections. Provides further, that each county council district must have one voter service center open on election day.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB290Intro
25%
Establishes strict liability for crimes against elders with respect to the attendant circumstance that the victim was sixty years of age or older.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB271Intro
25%
Requires educational institutions with elementary students to allow faculty and staff to provide time and space for students to engage in student-led group prayer or individual student prayer. Prohibits discipline or admonishment based on participati...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB259Intro
25%
Requires that each county council district feature at least one voter service center for elections. Prioritizes using public schools as voter service centers. Requires the clerk to advertise for volunteers. Requires each county council district to ha...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB313Intro
25%
Allows designation of eligible homestead lots as enterprise zones for a period of twenty years. Provides state and local incentives to qualified businesses on homestead lots.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB289Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB287Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment that would establish local school boards throughout the State to be elected by the voters and to serve no more than twelve years as a member.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB266Intro
25%
Clarifies that surfers have the right of way in designated surf locations to be determined by the department of land and natural resources. Authorizes penalties for fishermen who violate this section. Requires DLNR to implement a public education cam...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB282Intro
25%
Provides an income tax deduction for tips received by tipped employees.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB269Intro
25%
Increases the capital gains tax for nonresident and foreign taxpayers. Increases the alternative capital gains tax for corporations for nonresident and foreign corporations.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB265Intro
25%
Establishes the Onipaa Teacher Bonus Program to address teacher retention and award teachers for outstanding and extended service in the department of education. Ensures that general education teachers assigned to special education inclusion classes ...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB273Intro
25%
Establishes a School Choice Scholarship program which allows parents to exercise more financial freedom to send their children to nonpublic schools with the assistance of a $10,000 grant for eligible students.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB245Intro
25%
Requires and appropriates funds for the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health, to develop statewide guidelines related to managing heat exposure to protect students' health during outdoor activities. Appropriates fun...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB293Intro
25%
Requires that all moneys in the pro rata portion of the Public Land Trust be transferred to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB236Intro
25%
Increases the minimum age to operate a low-speed electric bicycle from fifteen to sixteen years of age.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB298Intro
25%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the terms of members of the legislature to a maximum of twelve years in the house of representatives or senate, or both, for terms beginning on or after the general election of 2026.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB268Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to designate athletic sports teams based on the biological sex assigned to players at birth. Prevents males from participating in female sports.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB288Intro
25%
Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions and appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Allows Department schools ...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB296Intro
25%
Requires the office of legislative analyst to produce fiscal notes on all fiscal bills. Prohibits a committee from making a decision on a fiscal bill without a fiscal note. Mandates that fiscal notes be made available to the public. Appropriates fund...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB285Intro
25%
Establishes tax credits for insurers providing full property coverage to owners and associations of condominiums in the amount equal to twenty per cent of the insurance premium. Provides additional ten per cent tax credits to insurers incorporated in...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB258Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to implement a supplemental sports program for high school students in West Oahu.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB292Intro
25%
Categorizes electric bicycles into three classes based on speed and operation. Requires electric bicycle manufacturers and distributors to apply a label to each electric bicycle. Authorizes county police to confiscate bicycles for certain offenses. I...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB294Intro
25%
Requires leases used in the conveyance of available lands as defined by section 203 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, as amended, to conform to the requirements for securitization by federally insured lending programs.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB284Intro
25%
Requires counties to grant building permits within sixty days if the application is stamped and certified by a licensed engineer and architect and other certain conditions are met.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB312Intro
25%
Requires the department of human services to provide written notice to a parent of the parent's rights when conducting an investigation regarding a child who is or may be subject to imminent harm.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB267Intro
25%
Mandates that each school sporting event of 25 or more participants have an AED trained faculty member or athletic trainer in attendance and all schools be equipped with AED devices, Narcan, EpiPens, and inhalers. Mandates CPR training for coaches an...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB286Intro
25%
Updates the Individual Housing Account statute to reflect the current cost of housing down-payments more accurately.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB311Intro
25%
Establishes general excise tax exemptions for various medical services, including dental services.
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB357Intro
25%
Appropriates funds for the Office of the Governor, in collaboration with the Insurance Division of the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, to strengthen existing hurricane shelters and develop new hurri...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB495N/A
0%
Proposes a constitutional amendment to limit the number of years members may serve in the Legislature to a maximum of sixteen years.
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB493N/A
0%
For purposes of the state ethics laws, subjects legislators to all ethics laws applicable to employees by including legislators within the definition of "employees". Repeals references to legislators under the state ethics laws made redundant by the ...
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB455N/A
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Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program. Establishes the Hawaii start-up business loan program special fund. Requires DBEDT to submit an annual report to the Legislature regarding the program. Appropriates funds.
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB474N/A
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Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to fund one full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) fall prevention and early detection coordinator position.
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB490N/A
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Requires the Insurance Commissioner to develop comprehensive standards and requirements for condominium associations and developers to obtain property insurance through self-insurance and mutual insurance, and examine and evaluate the feasibility of ...
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB435N/A
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Amends the definition of electric bicycles subject to various state laws and classifies electric bicycles by top assisted speed. Establishes additional regulations for the registration and use of electric bicycles. Increases the minimum age to operat...
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB295Intro
25%
Provides that a living beneficiary's place on the Department of Hawaiian Home Land's waitlist for any residential, agricultural or pastoral tract may be designated for transfer to a successor if the living beneficiary dies before receiving an offer f...
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2025-01-17
Introduced and Pass First Reading.
HIHB516N/A
0%
Repeals the requirement imposed on the counties to allow for the construction of at least two accessory dwelling units on all residentially zoned lots. Establishes the accessory dwelling unit housing development program with the Hawaii Community Deve...
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
HIHB572N/A
0%
Exempts food and groceries from the general excise tax. Expands a 2024 session law exempting certain medical and dental services to include all medical and dental services.
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2025-01-17
Pending introduction.
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